The Kremlin accused this Monday that the assault on an airport in the Russian republic of Dagestan was “largely the result of external interference”. If the origin of this “interference” was not specified, the leader of Dagestan Sergei Melikov assured, without proof, that these disturbances had been organized from Ukraine.
The assault on an airport in the predominantly Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan by protesters visibly looking for Israelis is “largely the result of external interference”, the Kremlin said on Monday, the day after these attacks. clashes. “The events around Makhachkala airport (capital of Dagestan, editor’s note) last night are largely the result of external interference, including external information,” said Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov to journalists.
He did not specify the origin of this supposed “interference”, but the leader of Dagestan Sergei Melikov had assured earlier, without providing evidence, that these disturbances had been organized from Ukrainian territory, in the midst of the armed conflict between Kiev and Moscow.
“Excite people”
A crowd of men invaded the tarmac and the airport terminal on Sunday evening, amid tensions across the world since Israel’s campaign of retaliation in Gaza launched after Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7. Dmitri Peskov judged that with the “television images of the horrors occurring in the Gaza Strip”, it is “very easy for malicious people to use, to provoke the situation, to excite people”.
President Vladimir Putin will also hold a meeting, notably with the ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs, “to discuss Western attempts to use events in the Middle East to divide Russian society” on Monday evening, added Dmitri Peskov .